Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

U.S. COVID hospitalizations pass last winter's peak

(HealthDay)—The United States has passed another grim milestone in the pandemic as the Omicron variant races across the country: COVID hospitalizations have now eclipsed a previous peak, which was seen last January.

Cardiology

New way to identify early risks of cardiovascular disease

The risk of developing cardiovascular disease is strongly associated with the "bad" LDL cholesterol. A large study by scientists at Karolinska Institutet now shows that two proteins that transport cholesterol particles in ...

Medical research

Fighting blood diseases with artificial intelligence

Every day, cytologists around the world use optical microscopes to analyze and classify samples of bone marrow cells thousands of times. This method to diagnose blood diseases was established more than 150 years ago, but ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

For fully vaccinated, immunity against SARS-CoV-2 wanes over time

In all age groups, immunity against the delta variant of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) decreased a few months after receipt of the second dose of the BNT162b2 vaccine, according to a study published ...

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